Electrophysiological evidence of the effect of natural polyphenols upon the human higher brain functions

Neuroendocrinology Letters

Volumn 32, Issue 4, 2011, Pages 464-468

  Cimrová, Barbora ^a   Budáč, Stanislav ^a   Melicherová, Uršula ^a   Jergelová, Mariana ^a   Jagla, Fedor ^a  

^a INSTITUTE OF CHEMISTRY   (Slovakia)

Author keywords

Attention; EEG; Human higher functions; Polyphenols; Saccadic eye movements; Space memory

Indexed keywords

PLACEBO; POLYPHENOL DERIVATIVE; PROVINOLS; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG;

ARTICLE; BLOOD PRESSURE; BRAIN ELECTROPHYSIOLOGY; BRAIN FUNCTION; CONTROLLED CLINICAL TRIAL; CONTROLLED STUDY; DRUG EFFECT; ELECTROENCEPHALOGRAM; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; NORMAL HUMAN; SACCADIC EYE MOVEMENT; SPATIAL MEMORY;

EID: 80053482638     PISSN: 0172780X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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